title: The RNA WikiProject: community annotation of RNA families.
abstract: The online encyclopedia Wikipedia has become one of the most important online references in the world and has a substantial and growing scientific content. A search of Google with many RNA-related keywords identifies a Wikipedia article as the top hit. We believe that the RNA community has an important and timely opportunity to maximize the content and quality of RNA information in Wikipedia. To this end, we have formed the RNA WikiProject (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_RNA) as part of the larger Molecular and Cellular Biology WikiProject. We have created over 600 new Wikipedia articles describing families of noncoding RNAs based on the Rfam database, and invite the community to update, edit, and correct these articles. The Rfam database now redistributes this Wikipedia content as the primary textual annotation of its RNA families. Users can, therefore, for the first time, directly edit the content of one of the major RNA databases. We believe that this Wikipedia/Rfam link acts as a functioning model for incorporating community annotation into molecular biology databases.
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Daub
authors.forename: Paul P
authors.initials: PP
authors.lastname: Gardner
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tate
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ramsköld
authors.forename: Magnus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Manske
authors.forename: William G
authors.initials: WG
authors.lastname: Scott
authors.forename: Zasha
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Weinberg
authors.forename: Sam
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Griffiths-Jones
authors.forename: Alex
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bateman
mesh_terms: D003628:Database Management Systems; D030561:Databases, Nucleic Acid; D012313:RNA / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D012313:RNA